How to Create a Setup file in Visual Studio 2019 | C# VB.Net installer creation | MSI EXE

Quick video showing How to Create a Setup file in Visual Studio 2019 for your project. In this video we look at exactly how to create an MSI & EXE setup file for your C# or VB.Net project in Visual Studio 2019.

If you have been handing out .exe files and would like an installer file (MSI or EXE) then this is the video for you! We walk through the whole process to create the installer by using the Microsoft installer project extension for Visual Studio.

After downloading the required extension, we make a new installer project inside of our solution and setup everything so that the user will have a desktop icon and everything else once they install our project.

Thanks for checking my video out! If you have any questions, please ask in the comments, I would love to help!

Thanks again!

[tannerensign]

This was the best tutorial I could find. So simple and easy. Love it!

[andytodd]

Thanks for such a straightforward and clear guide - it just made this morning's task easier and quicker!

[Ghost-gcbz]

the best tutorial on youtube, searched thrue 20 video couldn't find the one that works and you explained it so simply and quickly thank you still works on visual 2022

[johnnyvcrow]

Great tutorial on a topic that (suprisingly enough) does not have much coverage. Much simpler than the other tutorials I've found. Also, the "Evil Storage" made me chuckle. I assume that would be a reference to Darren Kitchen at HAK5, and the legendary "Evil Server"? . :) Take care!

[adamschneider]

Just used this to deploy an application to 90 users. Thanks.

[KinyanjuiKamaukkjay]

Thanks for this. Installer works and creates program shortcut. Funny thing when I double click on icon, program does not run, lol.

[bsh]

Appreciated sir for your sharing. Im learning C sharp and found your channel. It's really helpful for me. I have subscribed.

[mattkurt]

Nice video! An idea for a follow up video on this would be how to create update installer packages for your application.

[leonardegray]

This was the absolutely best tutorial that I have viewed!! Bravo!

[jimissel]

Perfect tutorial! This is exactly what I was looking for. Great job, Darren!!!

[mahmoudnajah]

this was the best, the most complete and easy tutorial to understand ever. it helped me a lot !! Thanks

[danlynch]

Darren - thanks for sharing the informative and succinct video. It saved me a ton of time trying to find all the documentation to put together my setup package. Good video!

[DarrenG]

Thanks for watching! If you have any programming-related how-to video requests, I would love to hear them for more content ideas!
I also would welcome any kind of feedback on how I can improve!
Thanks!!

[imdrogon]

Thanks! Helpful for my screen recorder app I've been working on to find every install.exe maker I find is pay only when I'm a poor college student trying to make a buck

[alexle]

Tanks, that was very complette, but also i have a question. If i work with a database like MySql and y want to create the DB with a .sql file at the time the installer is running, How can i do it?

[alanlowe]

Great video Darren. There was nothing different in creating a setup project in VS 2022, almost word for word 😀

[chriswinter]

Thank you, thank you, thank you.!! This saved me days and days of anguish.

[nayaktel]

Dear You are nothing but a practical fantastic Person dude, I heartily thanking you for the tutorial and it is very much useful for me

[ttwistedyt]

Thanks Darren. This topic is needlessly complicated elsewhere but you made it a snap. Thanks!

[jakezepeda]

Awesome video, not over-complicated like some others i have come across.
Not sure if your'e still interested in this, but i think a 2 good follow ups would be updating said application and installing drivers/extra requirements (such as Acces DB Engine).